Building a Treehouse

I will add my expertise by stating nothing is more fun than digging post holes within 10 feet of a massive tree.

The place to skimp on money probably isn't the bolts that will hold up the treehouse that is holding your children.

Pay attention Khalid, it's not his children.. it's his sister's. Plus, she can always make more.

Well with the posts or even knee bracing he could avoid bolts. Those bolts are awesome that was linked but he ins't building a house in a tree with hot tubs and kitchens like we see on TV. For many decades lags and bolts worked just fine for lasting 10 years a kid needs. The thing about these $100 bolts are they are designed not to hurt the tree, due to PC about happy tree feelings.

I work with wood nonstop and I smile when I rip/cut/screw/nail and beat it. Take that wood, take it good! err something.

fris_sl said:

and you're supposed to use wood you stole from the neighborhood, rusty nails, and continuously adding to it till it falls to the ground

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I am in the process of putting a tree house up, myself, and also wanted to do it on the inexpensive. Go on craigslist. There are a LOT of people who have tree houses and children who are grown. They want you to take the tree house away, no charge. I'm putting up a tree house that is actually not going to be around a tree, but next to several. It's on six 4x6 posts sunk 5 feet in the ground, each have 4 sixty pound bags of cement on them. It will have a 10 x 14 deck, and the tree house itself is 8 feet square, and six feet tall on the sides, 8 feet in the peak. I'm adding windows to it (from the ReStore), and I had to buy some new lumber, but I'm going to be able to get it up for about 300$ total monetary cost, not including my time.

I'll post pictures sometime soon, I'm going to have it mostly done this week, I hope.

Look on craigslist, get cheap materials. I also have a friend who actually just drove around looking for people with big assed tree houses in their yards and put a letting in their mailboxes, saying something like, "I can make your tree house go away for no charge!" and he had more than a dozen people contact him, asking him to take it away. Free materials, mostly constructed already, win win!

Didn't think about it but it is a good idea.
House I just remodeled this last month the people had bought and gave away the old deck/doors( that I didn't want ) and other stuff via Craigslist.
The people who came and said they was there for the deck had to be at least 80, man and his wife. I first gave them a crowbar then helped them after I felt bad to remove it ( was leaving posts ).
Sure in larger towns a tree house wouldn't be hard to find.

yeah, that sounds like a pretty great idea.

RobXIII_sl said:

WARNING! If you actually take up everyone who will give you their treehouse mats for free, yours may end up looking like this:

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I just bought 3 new Milwaukee impact driver sets with batteries for my guys. Challenge accepted.

Sadly Cad is right. Lawyers have fucked up the world real good. Wait till you have kids and you see what permission slips for field trips look like now.